Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make...

Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make sure the code getting shipped is top notch !

Ashwin loves to travel, eat, cook and of course speak at Joomla Conferences!

A new idea which poped out of a general discussion between some innovative and geeky minds from Techjoomla, JoomlaShine, JoomlArt, Stackideas, Joomlatools and JoomlaCorner of developing a template which would be simple, light weight and one of a kind. Our friends at JoomlArt made sure that this idea turned into a reality which gave birth to JA- Simpli.

What's so special about JA- Simpli?

Well, you can say that this is the template which was missing in Joomla 3 or maybe the unofficial Joomla template because this template does not use any framework. Yeah, you read it right it does not have any framework and uses Joomla default template structure with integrated bootstrap and a template customizer. The template is fully responsive, has multiple ready to use layouts and plenty more...

Well, we liked it so much and we appreciated their effort by giving a testimonial. The creation of this template in a time where templates without any special 'frameworks' are not thought of anymore, this has proven that there is plenty of room to innovate.

JTicketing, one of the most reliable event ticketing extension for Joomla is getting a new update soon. After a lot of feature requests and keeping the market demand in mind we have com up with these amazing additions that you'll get with JTicketing 1.8. Before you read what all is lined up for the future release, quickly have a look at features that were introduced in the last major release.

Keep Calm! Easter is here and so is the discount season. Let’s celebrate Easter together, this time in a different way. Techjoomla, Stackideas and JoomlaShine have joined hands to delight its users with some amazing deals and surprises. Participate in the Egg Hunt to get better discounts. ;)

What’s the EGG HUNT?

Let’s go pointwise to make it easier to understand:

Get the discount code from Stackideas blog, you can use that code to buy any product on Stackideas at a 10% Discount.

It's 10 odd days since the release of Shika 1.0 Stable. It was supremely energizing to see your awesome response for the release. Thank you guys for all the Love and support, we’re hoping to see same kind of enthusiasm from you guys which will keep us motivated and we will be able to maintain a steady pace of the development, getting you all some fabulous features in Shika.

What’s next?

In order to keep a fast pace of development and at the same time ensure that you have stable releases to use on your live sites, we are going to do development in 2 parallel tracks. One track will concentrate on improving the current stable builds, maintaining them adding fresh new features. The Second track outputs shall be shared with subscribers as Alpha/Beta releases to take early feedback. Look out for updates on the roadmap during the webinar.

Webinar on Shika

We’ll be doing the webinar via Google Hangouts. The idea of the hangout is to give you some in depth insight into what Shika is all about - Courses, Modules, Lessons, Authoring, Quizzes, Reports and best ways to use them. On Public demand, we shall also be talking about ways to extend Shika, the developer APIs available and a lot more. We are very excited about this.. especially the Q & A sessions where we can interact and brainstorm the possibilities with each other. See you all soon!

Its February 22nd 2016. Just over 4 years when we first flirted with the idea of creating a learning management system. May 2014 saw Shika enter Techjoomla Labs. 21 months , 8000+ hours of development time and 350,000 + lines of code later, we are proud, (albeit exhausted and excited at the same time !) to present to you Shika 1.0.

Since its announcement, Shika has caused a lot of excitement in the Joomla community and all your love and feedback is what has powered and inspired us and will continue to do so. It’s been an amazing journey so far a lot of it documented via our blog.

A lot of love, feedback and code has gone into making this first cut of our dream come true. Here’s a quick look at what we have to offer.

Reliable email delivery is key in web applications, you don't want your customers to miss that order confirmation email or skip that very important Social Network notification. When using a service like Amazon SES, that additionally helps you improve your email sending quota if your web host gives you a rather small quota. It's fairly easy to get up and running with Amazon SES. You'll need to have an account with Amazon AWS (of course!)

On demand of our very own Shika Early Adopters, we have introduced some cool new features. Besides these features, there are a lot of bug fixes done.

What are the new additions?

Course and lesson alias

With Alias for Courses and Lessons they’re going to be more Search Engine Friendly.

Youtube plugin

Previously we were facing problems with Youtube video lessons using JWplayer API, now we have integrated the IFrame API for YouTube videos to get rid of this scenario. YouTube plugin is introduced as one more Lesson type in video section.

What's your Joomla story? How did you get introduced?

In 2004 and 2005 I experimented with a lot of different platforms from WordPress to Moveable Type and Mambo. Playing around with all of them working out what was best for the projects that I was building at that time lead me to choose Mambo as my solution. Shortly after it split and forked with Joomla! The rest is history.

There’s lots of businesses built around Joomla - Extensions, Templates, Consulting, Services. How would you like these businesses to give back to Joomla? What's the best way in your opinion?

I believe the most important thing is the adoption of Joomla. Showing, educating and spreading Joomla is the most important thing.

Sometimes the module positions that come with your template are just not enough, or if you’re a developer you might want to allow your users to load modules inside various parts of your component.

A good example is if you want to publish Ads coming from SocialAds on your EasySocial stream without changing any default functionalities of the stream. You'd do this by loading the Social Ads module in one of the various positions that Easysocial has already set up on their stream.

Have you ever wondered what are the best practices in planning a new concept or idea and what goes into the process of turning ideas to realities?

We ourselves do a lot of Product Development here at Techjoomla as well as at our parent company. We have closely seen the process of product development from ideation to production and marketing it. So it was very interesting to get another perspective at this when we interviewed Erik Folberth from thePHPfactory (one of our partners). Let's see what he has to say!

What is your first thought on creating a new product?

It's always a good idea to analyze the mistakes from the past when working towards the creation of a new product, or of a new website.

I was surfing the web and stumbled upon an article saying, 85% of world's population shops online. Really?!? This made me think that if you own (or want to start) an online shopping portal it needs to be user friendly and at the same time easy for the Store owner as well.

With Quick2Cart 2.5 we’re introducing some cool new features which makes this extension so flexible that you can mould it perfectly the way you want. You want to start an Online Fashion Store? You want to sell Electronic Gadgets Online? Food, Cosmetics anything. Quick2cart 2.5 makes you do all that stuff with ease. People who are new to Quick2Cart can get to know about it. Rest, let’s see...

What’s new?

Stock Based Attributes

Introducing attribute based Inventory for Native product manager. With this you will be able to keep stocks of your products for attributes like Colors, sizes etc.

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